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A Greater Sum of Sorrow: The Battles of Bullecourt by David Coombes (Professor of European Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland)
Category: Military
In April-May 1917 the sleepy hamlet of Bullecourt in northern France became the focus of two battles involving Australian and British troops. Given the unique place in this nation's military history that both battles occupy, surprisingly little has been written on the AIF's achievements at Bullecourt. A ...Show more
Chantic Bird:Text Classics by David Ireland; George Williamson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
I'm only telling you this to let you know what a silly thing it is to live like I do. What it was, I got sacked from my seventeenth job for fighting or gambling - I don't know which - and because I was hardly ever there. I was gambling all right, but someone called me a cheat and swung at me, I moved my ...Show more
Crossing the Wire: The Untold Stories of POWs in Battle and Captivity During WWI by David Coombes (Professor of European Studies, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland)
Category: Military SPECIALS
The experiences of Australian prisoners of war (POWs) or Kriegsgefangeners held captive in Germany has been largely forgotten. This is an account of what young Australian soldiers experienced, and the spirit they showed in responding to captivity.
Extraordinary Life of the Wildlife Man by David Ireland
Category: Biography and Memoir
'In my line of work, knowing when to obey fear and when to ignore it is often the difference between life and death.' David Ireland has handfed bull sharks, filmed inside the jaws of a saltwater crocodile, looked into the black eyes of a great white shark and felt the breath of a lion devouring a wildeb ...Show more
Journey to the Mountain of God by David D. Ireland
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Megachurch pastor Ireland details a step-by-step journey to rekindle readers' hearts for intimacy with God. He offers questionnaires and surveys designed to help readers assess and improve their spiritual conditions.
Men At Birth: Stories of Men's Experiences of the Births of Their Children by David Vernon (Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Category: Parenting
MEN AT BIRTH is a unique collection of stories from Australian men about the birth of their children. The stories range from the humorous to the highly emotional. Many men are bewildered put off or just plain scared by the idea of childbirth. Birth is one area of life where husbands and male partners ...Show more
The Chosen by David Ireland
Category: Fiction
Now she seems like a musical note which has escaped into the air that is the river of all music. At night he goes into the dark, looks up at distant stars, miserable that knowledge has robbed us of the old certainties. Once we had souls, and souls went 'up there' when we died. Now we have nothing, no so ...Show more
The Glass Canoe: Text Classics by David Ireland
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"On hot days we jumped fully clothed into our bottomless beer glasses and pushed off from shore without a backward look. Heading for the deep, where it was calm and cool." Meat Man is a regular at the Southern Cross pub in Sydney. With his tribe he sits and drinks and watches as life spirals around him. ...Show more
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner: Text Classics by David Ireland
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics
What was Puroil? At Clearwater it was a sprawling refinery, an army of white shirts, a fleet of wagons, a number of apparently separate companies, dozens of monolithic departments protected from each other by an armour of functional difference and jealousy. On the refinery site it was two hundred and fi ...Show more